Bible verse
For if someone does not know how to manage his own household, how can he care for the church of God?
1 Timothy 3:5 · BSB
The verses around it, from 1 Timothy 3.
1 This is a trustworthy saying: If anyone aspires to be an overseer, he desires a noble task.
2 An overseer, then, must be above reproach, the husband of but one wife, temperate, self-controlled, respectable, hospitable, able to teach,
3 not dependent on wine, not violent but gentle, peaceable, and free of the love of money.
4 An overseer must manage his own household well and keep his children under control, with complete dignity.
5 For if someone does not know how to manage his own household, how can he care for the church of God?
6 He must not be a recent convert, or he may become conceited and fall under the same condemnation as the devil.
7 Furthermore, he must have a good reputation with outsiders, so that he will not fall into disgrace and into the snare of the devil.
8 Deacons likewise must be dignified, not double-tongued or given to much wine or greedy for money.
9 They must hold to the mystery of the faith with a clear conscience.
KJV
(For if a man know not how to rule his own house, how shall he take care of the church of God?)
ASV
(but if a man knoweth not how to rule his own house, how shall he take care of the church of God?)
ERV
(but if a man knoweth not how to rule his own house, how shall he take care of the church of God?)
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